Sen. John Fetterman pushed back Wednesday against members of his own party who mocked President Donald Trump’s ceasefire deal with Iran, saying Democrats could not demand the 25th Amendment and then sneer at the agreement once it landed. Speaking on ’s Hannity, Fetterman said the party was treating a live diplomatic opening like a punch line.
“We’re not even in for 40 days yet, so where are we at right now?” he said, arguing that critics were acting “gleeful” while the administration was still trying to lock in a broader outcome. Hours after warning that a whole civilization would die if no deal was reached, Trump announced a two-week ceasefire with Iran that is set to last until April 21. Fetterman said he supported the effort and called on Democrats to stop mocking it before the dust settled.
The dispute landed in the middle of a fast-moving foreign policy scramble. More than 30 Democrats and former Republican Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene had urged the Cabinet to invoke the 25th Amendment against Trump over his threat toward Iran before the ceasefire was announced. By Wednesday, the argument had shifted from whether Trump’s language was reckless to whether the deal he reached deserved credit, and Fetterman chose the latter side without hesitation.
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He framed that choice as a defense of the military as much as of the deal. “I’m old enough to remember we used to root for our military,” Fetterman said, adding that Iran is “the world’s leading terrorism underwriter” and “part of the evil empire.” He said the U.S. military had made “profound accomplishments” against Iran’s military and that Washington needed to address what he called a “47-year war crime” committed by Iran. “Remember what Iran’s done,” he said. “They underwritten 10/7, they killed thousands of Americans over the near five decades.”
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Fetterman also made clear he sees the ceasefire as only one step, not the finish line. He said, “Where we are right now, yeah, we have to finish it out without a doubt,” and added that he would be “the only Democrat that supports this.” Vice President JD Vance is set to lead peace talks with Iran in Pakistan on Saturday, with Steve Witkoff and Jared Kushner joining him. The next test for Trump’s gambit is whether that ceasefire can survive long enough to become a deal, or whether it becomes the latest break in a war that neither party can quite agree how to judge.
